Wuhlheide waterworks

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Wuhlheide waterworks

The Wuhlheide waterworks is a listed waterworks in the Berlin Wuhlheide in the Berlin-Oberschöneweide district and is located east of the Karlshorst trotting course in Jagen 340. It forms a network with the Friedrichshagen waterworks .

history

In the years 1911 to 1916, due to the strong population growth with the rapid establishment of industrial companies in the Berlin suburbs and due to hygienic requirements for the Wuhlheide area, the need to build a waterworks arose . The municipal building officer Gustav Ziesemann from Karlshorst provided the construction plans for the first expansion phase , which was completed in 1914.

The waterworks in what was then the Berlin suburb was put into operation in 1914. With the formation of Greater Berlin , the responsibility for operation was transferred to the city of Berlin, which on April 1, 1922 formed a network of all existing waterworks with the name Berliner Städtische Wasserwerke AG . The shareholders then had all waterworks technically checked in order to (a) continue operation without changes, (b) technical updates, (c) replace outdated technology or (d) shut down without replacement. Since the system in the Wuhlheide was already working with electric drives, it came under category (a). In 1928/1929 the treatment plant was expanded : the plant received a new, larger pure water tank for 21,600 m³ and two manganese filter systems . At the same time as all modernizations in the waterworks, the entire urban pipe network was also expanded and renewed. In addition, a laboratory was set up at the Wuhlheide plant, which was one of three that monitored the water quality for the entire Berlin area.

At the end of the Second World War , the waterworks suffered severe damage, which took until 1951 to be repaired. The first technical renewal took place by converting to submersible motor pumps in 1976. In 1978/1979 the ventilation was changed, in 1985/1986 the filter systems were fitted with glass tubes.

In 1993/1994, the entire heating and hot water preparation were converted to natural gas , and four more pure water tanks were installed. Finally, the administration building was converted into a central pipe network operations center.

In 2009 and 2014 the fountain gallery east and west was renewed, whereby the lift galleries now also received submersible motor pumps. On May 17, 2014, a family celebration for the 100th anniversary took place on the grounds of the waterworks.

Technical specifications

All technical systems of the waterworks, installed at the beginning of the First World War , use electric drives. An elevated tank in a water tower ensures that fluctuations in delivery are buffered. However, the tower is currently not at its full height.

In 2016, the waterworks had a maximum output of 30,000 m³ per day, had 17 vertical filter wells in the East Gallery and 18 vertical filter wells in the West Gallery. The pumps deliver 40–50 m³ of water per hour. The water treatment of the raw water takes place through ten open coarse filters with a filter area of ​​308 m². 36 closed Bollmann filters have a filter area of ​​221 m², the four manganese filter chambers have an area of ​​400 m². Six electric centrifugal pumps were used to pump the water, three of which were used to pump raw water with a maximum flow rate of 300 to 1,500 m³ per hour. In 2013 the Hebergalerie West was shut down, which turned off these three pumps. The other three pumps have an output of 500–2,500 m³ per hour at a pressure of 5.0–7  bar . and provide the pure water.

architecture

The core of the water extraction system is a free - standing two-aisled machine house. It was executed in the style of modernism with echoes of classicism . There are also two workshops and two residential buildings. A building with an H-shaped floor plan behind it consists of a single-storey administration wing and a four-storey structure in which the iron removal system , which is divided into ten chambers , a sand washing facility and four filter houses are housed. In the surrounding garden, which is also part of the cultural monument, there are two pure water tanks and the above-mentioned water tower.

All buildings are plastered buildings , pilaster strips act as facade decorations . The company buildings have small paired rectangular windows, high hipped roofs with bat dormers close off the houses.

literature

  • Matthias Donath, Gabriele Schulz: Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany / Monuments in Berlin part: 2005., Treptow-Köpenick district, Nieder- and Oberschöneweide districts . 2nd Edition. 2005, ISBN 3-937251-10-3 , pp. 158 f .

See also

Web links

Commons : Wasserwerk Wuhlheide  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Wuhlheide waterworks
  2. ^ Wuhlheide waterworks in the monument database of the Senate Department for Urban Development and the Environment
  3. ↑ Ziesemann, Gustav . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1911, I, p. 3361.
  4. ↑ a b c d e Berlin and its buildings , Part X, Volume A (2) Stadttechnik, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-86568-012-7 , p. 344f.
  5. ^ Berlin and its buildings , Part X, Volume A (2) Stadttechnik, Michael Imhof Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-86568-012-7 , p. 86 ff.
  6. ↑ Top refurbished and still in operation today at www.quiez.de.

Coordinates: 52 ° 28 ′ 9.2 ″  N , 13 ° 32 ′ 9 ″  E